Aghabani table cloths with gold and silver threads
Hanging dyed silk to dry after washing it in cold water
Hanging dyed silk to dry after washing it in cold water
Hand printed fabric combining plant and animal motifs
Introducing the blue dye in boiling water to the silk threads. This process is repeated several times until the silk absorbs the blue dye effectively
Hand carved wood block used for printing fabrics
Man with fresh bread
Introducing the blue dye in boiling water to the silk threads. This process is repeated several times until the silk absorbs the blue dye effectively
Mausoleum az-Zahir Baybars, mosaics covering the southern wall
A two-story building in a village in Ghuta
Aghabani table cloth with gold and silver threads
Aghabani table cloth
Aghabani table cloth with gold and silver threads
The minaret of Jamiʿ (Mosque) ash-Shaykh Muhyi ad-Din Ibn ʿArabi
Al-Madrasa ar-Rukniyya al-Barraniyya – view from the south
Jamiʿ (mosque) ash-Shaykh Muhyi ad-Din Ibn ʿArabi, seen from Friday’s suq
A room in the family wing (haramlik or juwwani), Asʿad Basha al-ʿAzm Palace
View over the roof of the south-western Madrasat Ismaʿil Basha al-ʿAzm to the Umayyad Mosque with its high transept of the prayer hall with a central dome and its three minarets
Modern interpretations of the traditional craft of ‘Ajami (workshop of Aliya Alnuami)
A room cladded with ‘Ajami decoration in a Damascene house
Door and windows of a room in the ground floor, Khan Sulayman Basha al-ʿAzm
Chickpeas
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